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0.  G.  Forshey, 
Daniel  Dennett, 
Wm.  M.  Burwell, 
Newton  Richards. 
W.  J>.  Koontz, 


J.  R.  Walker, 
Daniel  Edwards, 
J.  B.  Knight,' 
V.  O.  Kino, 
J.  S.  Knapp, 


Thos.  Nicholson,   , 

\l.  M.  Lusher, 

J.  S.  Copes, 

Joseph  Fry, 

T.  Wharton  Oollens. 


NEW  ORLEANS : 

•  JAMES   BUCKLEY, 
Stationer  ami  Job  Printer,  'S-i  Ooniincvrial  Place 


1872. 


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OBianr  and  history  of  the  movement. 


This  movement  received  its  initial  impulse  in  the  New  Orleans  Academy  of 
Sciences,  wherein,  on  the  12th  day  of  February,  1872,  the  following  resolution, 
offered  by  Dr.  V.  O.  King,  was  unanimously  adopted : 

Resolved,  That  this  Academy,  recognizing  the  necessity  for  technical  training  in  the 
physical  sciences  and  appreciating  the  value  of  formal  instruction  in  the  mechanical  arts,  docs 
hereby  recommend  the  founding  of  a  Polytechnic  School  in  the  city  of  New  Orleans. 

Resolved,  That   the   New   Orleans   Mechanics'   Society   he   invited  to  co-operate    with  this 
1  Academy  for  the  promotion  of  the  enterprise  ;  and 

Resolved  further,  That  for  tins  purpose,  the  President  appoint  a  Committee  of  Five  to  confer 
with  such  persons  and  corporations  as  may  favor  the  ohjects  of  this  resolution,   and  that    such 
j  initial  steps  be  taken  by  the  Committee  as,  in  its  opinion,  may  conduce  to  the  success  of  its 
-  charge. 

In  favor  of  the  adoptiou  of  the  resolution,  Dr.  King  said : 

Mr.  President  and  Gentlemen — The  object  of  this  resolution  is  two-fold  :  First, 
to  unite  the  forces  and  the  influences  which  we  may  be  able  to  control  for  the 
instruction  of  our  own  people  in  the  mechanical  arts  and  in  the  physical 
sciences;  and,  secondly,  to  recognize  the  intimate  union  which  exists  between 
science  and  labor.  In  this  latter  regard,  modern  truth  proclaims  as  a  fact  the 
inosculation  of  the  arts  and  sciences,  and  the  interdependence  of  the  one  upon 
the  other.  But,  sir,  it  is  not  science  which  creates  labor  or  the  industries 
flowing  from  it.  On  the  contrary,  science  is  the  progeny  of  the  industrial  arts 
on  the  one  side,  and  on  the  other  "of  the  experiences  and  perceptions  which 
gradually  attach  themselves  to  these  arts,  so  that  the  evolution  of  science  from 
the  arts  is  the  first  circumstance  of  human  progress,  although,  in  its  turn,  it 
opens  new  fields  6f  labor  to  the  enterprise  of  its  ancestor.  Industrial  labor, 
then,  is  one  of  the  parents,  and  science  the  child;  but,  as  often  happens  in  the 
world,  the  son  may  reflect  lustre  upon  the  hither,  and  even  add  dignity  to  his 
position.  In  this  wise  has  science  achieved  the  distinction  of  an  equal  in  the 
parental  household,  and  now  aspires  to  the  functions  of  directing  parental 
movements. 

In  the  progress  of  time,  common  knowledge  passes  into  scientific  knowledge. 
The  development  of  modern  truth  is  due  to  our.better  conception  of  forces  and 
their  mutual  relations  and  conversions.  Formerly,  heat,  light,  electricity,  mag- 
netism and  chemical  affinities  were  thought  to  be  distinct  and  independent 
existences,  not  even  related  to  each  other.  Now.  we  know  that  forces  are  con- 
vertible and  interchangeable. 

kThe  second  object  of  this  resolution,  Mr.  President,  relates  to  our  immediate 
nd  direct  efforts  for  the  cultivation  of  physical  science  in  our  own  midst,  and 
for  an  indissoluble  alliance  between  mind  and  muscle.  Until  this  be  accom- 
plished, we  must  submit  to  the  humiliating  alternative  of  importing  our 
intelligence  from  abroad,  or  to  the  still  more  wretched  fate  of  living  without 
intelligence  at  all,  from  any  source  whatever. 

The  most  advanced  governments  in  the  world  now  admit  their  dependence 
upon  the  intelligence  of  their  laboring  classes.  They  feel  that  these  classes  are 
the  props  of  their  agricultural,  commercial,  maritime  and  mechanical  industries. 


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.  And  for  this  purpose  they  have  availed  themselves  of  all  the  information 
recorded  in  the  books  they  could  command,  and  all  the  lights  of  experience  of 
living  educators.     But  little  of  the  real  held  has  been  unexplored  by  us. 

We  found  many  schools  in  progress,  both  in  Europe  and  America,  where  some 
labor  is  required  of  the  student;  and  this  is  found  to  range  through  nearly  all 
the  degrees  of  aid  to  those  willing  to  labor. 

Still,  we  found  no  school,  or  set  of  schools,  that  met  our  wants,  or  appeared 
an  exemplar  for  us;  because,  in  every  plan  or  institution  in  operation  there  was 
found  some  reliable  fund,  other  than  the  labor  of  the  student,  to  support  the 
school,  bear  the  expenses  of  its  tuition  or  board,  and  to  supplement  the  pro- 
ceeds of  the  students' labor.  In  truth,  nearly  all  the  "industrial  schools"  are 
directed  to  teaching  the  arts,  or  trades,  or  professions,  by  actual  labor,  rather 
than  to  making  that  labor  sustain  the  institution  itself. 

We  will  not  specify  schools.  Many  of  them  are  so  beneficent  and  admirable 
in  their  design  and  effects  as  to  reflect  the  highest  honor  upon  their  founders 
and  conductors,  and  to  give  us  a  better  view  of  human  character,  a  higher 
notion  of  the  standard  of  human  benevolence. 

What  we  need,  however,  the  Committee  is  impressed  to  state,  is  a  school  or 
set  of  schools  that  •shall  be  absolutely  self-supporting. 

Is  it  practicable  ?     Can  we  accomplish  it ;  or  are  we  Utopians  1 

We  answer,  we  must  have  this  result  or  nothing !  We  see  no  possible  resources 
for  founding  and  perpetuating  a  school  of  any  other  character. 

We  were  ashamed  to  report  to  yon  that  our  mission  was  impossible,  and 
hence  we  continued  to  work  and  to  discuss  the  subject,  till  we  arrived  at  the 
result  we  shall  submit  to  you,  after  we  shall  have  farther  stated  our  reasonings 
and  analysis. 

It  was  not  our  province,  as  we  concluded,  to  provide  ways  and  means ;  but  it 
was  obviously  absurd  to  submit  a.  plan  without  contemplating  this  first  considera- 
tion, and  keeping  within  pecuniary  possibilities. 

Subsistence,  clothing,  tuition — these  must  be  supplied.  Production  must 
accompany  consunrption,  and  must  exceed  it  a  little.  Then,  what  portion  of  the 
labor  of  students  will  pay  for  subsistence,  clothing  and  tuition? 

We  answer :  This  depends  upon  his  age  and  physical  force,  as  well  as  upon  his 
intelligence. 

At  fifteen  years  of  age  it  will  take  seven  of  his  ten  hours  a  day  to  pay  for 
decent  clothing  and  boarding;  at  sixteen  years,  five  hours ;  at  seventeen  years  and 
thereafter,  if  skilled,  four  hours.  If  you  add  collegiate  tuition,  the  scale  would 
be  enhanced  two  hours,  perhaps,  each  day. 

This  kind  of  analysis  led  the  Committee  to  estimate  somewhat  as  stated  in 
the, table  below,  on  the  hypothesis  of  students  engaged  as  apprentices,  say  from 
fourteen  to  fifteen  years  of  age,  and  the  number  of  fifty  or  one  hundred  engaged : 

Age  14, 1st  year,  deficit,  $100. 
Age  15,  2d  year,  deficit,  $50. 
Age  16,  3d  year,  deficit,  00. 
Age  17,  4th  year,  earns,  $50. 
Age  18,  5th  year,  earns,  $100. 
Age  19,  6th  year,  earns,  $150. 
Age  20,  7th  year,  earns,  $200. 

This  presumes  that  students  work  six  hours  each,  say  from  6  A.  M.  to  9  A.  M., 
and  from  3  p.  m.  to  6  p.  m.,  at  labor  that  shall  yield  for  market,  or  pay  hire. 

These  years,  or  any  portion  of  them,  it  is  believed,  could  be  made  to  yield  as 
stated.  Then  such  students  as  should  enter  at  more  advanced  ages,  and  remain 
even  a  shorter  period,  would  earn  as  indicated  in  this  scale,  and  be  profitable  to 
the  school,  above  their  expenses.  Should  a  school,  on  this  basis,  be  founded 
and  supported  by  some  fund  raised  by  benevolence  or  public  contribution  for 


three  or  four  years,  meeting  its  deficiencies,  it  is  believed  by  the  Committee  that 
it  would  be  self-sustaining  thereafter. 

And  i  his  is  the  best  we  c;nt  promise,  or  hope  for. 

The  Committee  believe  that  such  is  the  demand  for  education,  both  industrial 
and  intellectual,  among  our  people,  and  such  the  inability  of  parents  and 
guardians  to  afford  it,  that  they  would  immediately  fill  such  a  school  with 
pupils. 

The  city  and  the  State  could  themselves  become  strong  patrons  of  the  schools, 
and  aid  us  in  founding  them,  and  find  it  a  great  economy. 

We  feel  assured,  too,  that  a  diploma  from  such  a  school,  presenting-  an  edu- 
cated gentleman,  in  the  mechanic  or  the  farmer  who  should  bear  it,  would  secure 
employment  at  good  wages  wherever  the  happy  graduate  should  go. 

According  to  the  scale  of  earnings  and  expenses  shown,  it  is  obvious  that  a 
scholarship  is  worth  $150.  That  is,  the  youth  who  enters  at  fourteen  years 
would  cost  the  institution  $150  before  his  work,  at  half  time,  will  support  him. 

With  this  key  before  us,  the  Committee  thought  it  possible  that  scholarships, 
to  the  number  of  one  or  two  hundred,  or  more,  might  be  sold,  in  order  to  rea- 
lize a  moderate  fund  on  which  to  prepare  buildings  and  commence  operations. 

As  to  sites  for  the  Mechanical  and  Agricultural  Schools,  the  Committee  did 
not  feel  it  their  duty  to  report,  believing  that  such  designations  might  prejudice 
their  ability  to  obtain  property  at  reasonable  rates. 

With  these  considerations  and  suggestions,  full  of  defects  and  difficulties,  as 
we  know  them  to  be,  the  Committee  would  beg  the  indulgence  of  the  Conven- 
tion and  the  people  in  submitting  the  following  plan  for  Industrial  Schools  for 
New  Orleans  and  for  Louisiana;. 


PLAI. 


MECHANICAL  EDUCATION. 


In  New  Orleans,  or  its  suburbs,  let  there  be 


A. 

A  tract  of  ground,  to  be  improved  by  degrees,  with  parks  and  pleasure  grounds 
for  adequate  incidental  instruction  in  botany,  arboriculture  and  In >rti culture,  and 
for  gymnastic  exercises  aud  drill. 

B. 

Let  there  be  erected  upon  these  grounds,  at  first,  plain,  neat,  suitable  build- 
ings for  college  hall,  professors  and  students  quarters,  study  and  recitation 
rooms,  mess  halls,  kitchens  and  store-rooms. 

C. 

Let  there  be  erected,  at  the  same  time,  workshops  for  some  of  the  leading 
!  artisan  trades,  (to  be  determined  by  the  proper  board,)  and  let  them  be  supplied 
,  with  a  good  outfit,  each,  of  appropriate  tools  and  machinery  with  which  stu- 
1  dents  may  work,  by  half  time,  and  manufacture  for  market. 

D. 

When  funds  are  available,  let  these  temporary  buildings  be  replaced  by  sub- 
stantial and  permanent  ones,  with  the  very  best  machinery  and  tools  known  to  art. 


E. 

Let  the  course  of  instruction  run  through  six  years,  from  fourteen,  or  any  age 
above ;  and  let  all  the  proceeds  of  labor,  at  half  time,  be  devoted  to  the  tuition, 
books,  board  and  clothing  of  the  students  and  to  incidental  expenses. 

F. 

Let  the  elements  of  substantial  education  in  letters,  with  a  thorough  knowl- 
edge of  the  English  language,  be  taught;  and  let  the  sciences  relating  to  trades 
and  arts  be  most  thoroughly  mastered,  concurrently  with  the  arts  themselves. 

G. 

Let  such  dispositions  be  made  as  shall  enable  those  learning  or  practicing  any 
of  the  arts,  in  the  city  or  vicinity,  to  avail  themselves  of  the  scientific  training 
of  the  institute,  for  adequate  pay. 

H. 

Let  suitable  diplomas  and  degrees  be  awarded,  as  in  any  scholastic  institu- 
tion. 

AGKICULTUBAL  EDUCATION. 


Let  a  tract  of — thousand  acres  of  land,  of  a  suitable  kind,  be  obtained 

as  near  New  Orleans  as  practicable. 

Let  this  tract  be  appropriately  divided  into  areas  or  lots,  adapted  to  the  staple 
crops  of  the  climate,  to  horticulture,  forest  culture,  pasturage  and  to  the  various 
stock  raising  pursuits. 

B. 

Let  this  estate  be  suitably  supplied,  at  first,  with  plain,  but  neat  and  com- 
fortable buildings,  for  the  residences  and  lodging  rooms,  study  and  recitation 
rooms  of  students;  with  teachers  and  professors  and  superintendents  dwell- 
ings, and  with  a  chapel  and  college  hall. 

All  these  to  be  replaced,  in  time,  by  permanent  and  better  buildings. 

C. 

Let  the  students,  from  fourteen  years  and  upwards,  be  trained  in  all,  or  in  a 
suitable  number,  of  these  branches  by  practical  industry,  with  the  use  of  the 
most  improved  agricultural  implements,  as  well  as  improvements  of  soils, 
and  by  thorough  study  of  the  circle  of  sciences  relating  to  their  special 
industries,  as  also  in  a  good  English  education,  and  by  labor  of  one-half  their 
time,  produce  crops  and  stock  for  home  consumption  and  for  market. 

D. 

Let  all  the  proceeds  of  this  labor  be  devoted  to  the  books,  clothing,  board 
and  tuition  of  the  scholars  and  to  incidental  expenses. 

It  is  proposed,  then,  that  an  experiment  of  a  school,  founded  upon  either 
branch  of  this  plan,  be  made,  with  such  sum  of  money  as  can  be  raised  by  pri- 
vate and  public  contribution ;  and,  as  soon  as  practicable,  to  become  entirely 
self-supporting. 

Such  a  course  of  education  should  be  given  by  competent  professors,  who 
shall  lecture  and  teach  here,  within  this  city,  during  hours  conveniently 
arranged  for  apprentices  and  artisans,  at  reasonable  rates  of  tuition.    The 

instruction  must  be  directed  especially  to  the  application  of  the  sciences  and 

new  and  improved  methods  of  the  various  trades  and  manufactures,  including 

in  the  course  mechanical  and  mathematical  drawing. 


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In  the  double  aspect  of  such  an  institution  of  learning,  the  one  giving  home 
education  and  an  art  or  trade,  and  the  other  furnishing,  at  moderate  cost,  all 
the  scholastic  instruction  required  by  those  learning  or  practicing  their  trades 
in  this  city,  it  must  be  a  success  and  a  public  beneficence. 
All  of  which  is  most  respectfully  submitted  by  the  Committee  of  Fifteen. 

0.  G.  Forshey,  Chairman. 
J.  R.  Walker,  Secretary. 
Wm.  M.  Burwell,  Thos.  Nicholson, 


W.  B.  Koontz, 
Joseph  Fry, 
V.  O.  King, 


May  1,  1872. 


J.  B.  Knight, 
James  O.  Noyes,"- 
Daniel  Edwards, 
J.  S.  Knapp. 


Rob't  M.  Lusher, 
J.  S.  Copes, 
T.  Wharton  CoUens, 
Newton  Eichards, 


Dr.  James  O.  SToyes  having  died,  the  Board  of  Managers  on  the  21st  Nov.,  1872,  unanimously  elected  Mr.  Daniel 
Dennett  to  fill  the  vacancy  thereby  created. 


OOEPOEATE    CHAETER. 


Tke  State  of  Louisiana,  ) 
City  of  New  Orleans.      * 

DECLARATION 

We,  the  Undersigned*  availing  ourselves  of  the  laws  of  this  State  providing  for  the  organi- 
zation of  literary  and  scientific  corporations,  do  associate  and  form  ourselves  and  our  future 

associates  and  successors  into  a  corporation  and  l>ody  politic,  declaring-  and  specifying'  ths  fol- 
lowing to  be  the  organic  and  constitutive  articles  thereof: 

ARTICLE  FIRST. 

The  purposes  and  objects  of  said  corporation  shall  be— 1st.  The  establishment  of  a  college 
having  a  corps  of  professors  or  faculty  for  teaching  the  sciences  and  the  special  application  of 
mathematics,  and  of  natural  and  experimental  science,  to  the  arts.  2d.  The  establishing, 
maintaining  and  operating  of  workshops,  factories  and  laboratories,  model  farms  and  gardens, 
wherein  students  may  work,  under  the  direction  of  practical  overseers  and  scientific  in- 
tructorSjUpon  the  condition  that  their  labor  shall  compensate  for  their  tuition  and  support  daring 
the  term  of  tuition  :  and  that  no  profits  shall  accrue  to  or  be  distributed  among  individuals  other 
than  graduating  students,  but  that  the  whole  product,  shall  1>.-  devoted  to  the  objects  and  pur- 
poses hereabove  stated.  3d.  The  granting  of  appropriate  diplomas  and  degrees  to  student-" 
who  shall  have  successfully  completed  a  course  of  study  or  apprenticeship  in  any  branch 
of  applied  science. 

ARTICLE  SECOND. 

L  The  name  and  title  of  the  corporation  shall  be  the  Polytechnic  and  Industrial  Institute 
of  Louisiana,  and  the  members  thereof  shall  be  the  fifteen  original  undersigned  corporators, 
and  all  tlmse  who  after  them  shall  be  accepted  according-  to  the  by-laws,  sign  this  constitution 
and  pay  into  the  treasury  a  gratuity,  which  shall  not   We   less  than  fifty  dollars. 

II.  '  The  tenure  of  memhership  shall  he  for  life;  but  members  maybe  removed  for  cause 
defined  in  tl  i  e  by-la  ws,  # 

III.  Other  corporations  or  societies,  in  their  aggregate  capacity,  may  become  members  of 
this,  in  which  case  their  rights  as  such  shall  be  exercised  by  an  agent  or  proxy  specially 
appointed  by  them  to  that  effect,  and  their  term  of  membership  shall  be  twenty-five  years. 

ARTICLE  THIRD. 

I.  The  -.corporation,  its  colleges  and  property,  shall  be  governed  and  administered  by  a 
hoard  of  managers,  to  be  composed  during  the  first  year  of  the  fifteen  original  corporators,  viz.: 
C.  G.  Forshev,  J.  R.  Walker,  Thos. Nicholson,  W.  B.  Koontz,  J.  S.  Cope3,  Jas.  O.  Noves,  V.  O. 
King,  Newton  Richards,  W.  M.  Burwell.  RoVt  M.  Lusher.  .'.  B.  Knight,  Joseph  Fry,  T.  Wharton 
Collens,  J.  S.  Knapp,  Daniel  Edwards,  and  thereafter  the  members  shall  annually  elect,  by 
a  majority  of  the  votes  cast,  fifteen  persons  to  be  managers. 

II.  Eight  managers  shall  constitute  a  quorum  to  transact  the  affairs  of  the  corporation, 
at  a  meeting  of  the  hoard  duly  called  or  required  agreeably  to  the  by-laws. 

III.  The  annual  election  shall  be  held  and  conducted  in  manner  and  form,  and  at  such 
time  and  place,  as  shall  be  provided  by  an  ordinance  adopted  at  a  general  meeting  of  the 
members* 

IV.  The  Treasurer  shall  keep  a  registry  of  the  names  of  the  members,  of  the  amount  of 
gratuity  paid  by  each,  and  the  number  of  votes  to  which  each  is  entitled. 

V.  '  A  member  shall  have  one  vote  for  every  fifty  dollars  gratuity  to  the  institution  he  shall 
have  paid  into  the  treasury  :  provided,  that  no  one  member  shall  have  more  than  one-fifth  of 
the  whole  number  of  registered  votes. 

VI.  Every  member  shall  have  the  right  to  appoint  a  proxy  to  represent,  act  and  vote  for 
him  at  a  general  meeting  or  election;  provided,  that  no  one  shall  cast  as  a  proxy,  or  otherwise, 
more  than  one-fifth  of  the  aggregate  number  of  registered  votes. 

VII.  The  Board  shall  elect"  one  of  themselves  to  be  President  of  the  Board  and  Chief 
Manager  of  the  Corporation. 


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VIII.  The  Hoard  shall  elect  or  provide  for  fcjie  selection  of  a  Secretary,  a  Treasurer,  fi 
Principal  Professor  or  Dean,  and  such  other  officers,  professors,  agents,  clerks,  overseers,  work- 
men and  servants  as  they  may  determine  to  have,  whose  dnties,  liabilities,  compensation  and 
term  of  service  they  shall  denne  and  regulate  as  they  may  deem  expedient. 

ARTICLE  P.OURTH. 

The  domicil  of  the  corporation  is  New  Orleans,  and  the  President  of  the  Board  of  Mana- 
gers the  officer  on  whom  citations  may  be  served. 

ARTICLE  FIFTH. 

Th#  corporation  shall  exist  twenty-five  years,  unless  sooner  dissolved  and  LfafUidated 
according  to  law. 

ARTICLE  SIXTH. 

This  corporation  shall  not  hold  property  of  a  value  exceeding  three  hundred  thousand 
dollars  ($300,000). 

Iu  testimony  whereof,  we  have  hereunto  set  our  hands  on  this  first  day  of  June,  in  the  year 
of  our  Lord  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  seventy-two. 

C.  G.  Forshey.  J.  R.  Walker.  Thos.  Nicholson, 

J.  O.  Noyrs,  Daniel  Edwarms.  R.  M.  Lusher, 

Wm.  M.  Burweix,  J.  B.  Knight,  J.  S.  Copes. 

Nrwtox  RrcHARns.  V.  O.  Ktng.  Joseph  Fry, 

W.  B.  Koontz,  J.  S.  Kxapp,  T.  Wharton  CojiEXH. 


Passed  before  J.  G.  Eustis,  Notary  Public,  oil  the  first  day  of  June,  1872. 


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I  have  examined  the  foregoing  act  of  Incorporation  and  find  that  the  pur- 
poses and  objects  as  specified  therein  are  legal,  and  that  none  of  its  provisions 
are  contrary  to  law. 

( Signed )  JOHN  McPHELIK, 

District  Attorney 
TSfew  Orleans,  December  5,  1872.  tor  the  Parish  of  Orleans, 


CONSTITUTION, 


AETICLE  I. 
BOARD   OF    MANAGERS. 

Section  1.  The  President  shall  call  the  Annual  Meeting  of  the  members  of 
the  Company,  to  be  held  on  the  first  Tuesday  of  June  of  each  year;  at*which 
meeting  a  new  Board  of  Managers  shall  be  elected,  according  to  the*  provision 
of  the  charter:  and  the  new  Board  shall  be,  installed  at  the  close  of  counting  of 
the  Ballot.     The  Secretary  shall    give  ten  days  notice  of  this  meeting. 

Sec.  ik.      VII  vacancies  shall  be  filled  by  vote  of  majority  of  the  whole  Board. 

Sec.  3.  The  outgoing  Boardj  at  this  meeting  shall  take  measures  only  for 
closing  its  past  operations:  and  the  incoming  Board  shall  act  upon  measures 
tor  the  fat  are. 

Sec.  1.  The  mode  of  proceeding  in  meetings  of  the  Board  shall  be  accord- 
ing to  the  By-Laws,  for  its  goverment. 

Sec.  r>.  The  Board  of  Managers  shall  provide  for  all  purchases  and  expendi- 
tures, by  appropriation.  Monies  shall  not  be  expended  or  invested  in  pur- 
chases, beyond  necessary  current  expenditures,  except  from  sums  appropriated 
by  the  Board. 

Sec.  (>.  The  Board  may  delegate  to  the  Finance  Committee  the  power  to 
make  minor  investments  and  expenditures,  without  specific  appropriation. 

Sec.  7.  The  Board  shall  provide  for  all  officers  their  duties  and  compensa- 
tions, not  otherwise  provided  for  herein. 

Sec,  8.  A  Manager  may  be  displaced  upon  charges  of  unfitness,  neglect 
of  duty  or  unworthy  conduc|#by  a  vote  of  two  thirds  of  the  whole  Board.  He 
shall  be  cited  and  heard  in  his  defence. 

Sec.  9.  The*  Board  shall  elect  annually  a  President,  Vice  President,  Secretary 
and  Treasuser;  and  also,  a  Finance  Committee,  an  Executive  Committee  and  a 
Committee  on  Buildings,  each  to  consist  of  three  members. 

Sec.  10.      The   Finance   Committee  shall   audit   all   accounts,   examine   the 
reports  of  Treasurer,  and  of  all  agents  and  functionaries  of  the  Institute. 
•  Sec.  11.     The  Board  shall  raise  such  Standing  Committees,  from  time  to  time 
as  the  interest  of  the  ^Institute  or  exigencies  may  remiire,  and  shall  prescribe 
their  duties  and  terms  of  office.  ^ 

AETICLE  II. 

DUTIES   OF    OFFICERS. 

Sec.  1.  The  President  shall  preside  at  all  meetings  of  the  Board,  and  shall  be 
ex-officio  chairman  of  all  committees  when  present;  and  shall  have  the  functions, 
prerogatives,  and  duties  common  to  this  office  in  corporate  directories. 

The  Vice  President,  in  the  absence  of  the  President,  shall  perform  all  the  duties 
appertaining  to  his  office. 

Sec.  :i.  The  signature  of  the  President,  with  the  countersign  of  the  Sec- 
retary, and  seal  of  the  Company,  shall  bind  the  Corporation  in  all  matters 
within  their  delegated  powers. 

Sec.  3.  The  President  shall  nominate  to  the  Board,  for  confirmation,  or 
rejection  all  salaried  officers;  and  shall  appoint  or  authorize  all  employees:  report- 
ing their  names,  the  dates  of  their  service  and  the  rates  of  their  pay  to  the  Sec- 
retary and  Treasurer.  He  shall  take  general  charge  of  the  interests  of  the 
Corporation. 

Sec.  4.    The  Sewetmy  shall  keep  the minutes  of  the  proceedings  of  the  Board 


He  shall  have  custody  of  the  archives,  papers,   books,   inar^>  accouids, 

and  the  sealj  and  shall  keep  a  full  record  of  nil  the  operat)  s  -  I  rJu;  I  (.aid, 
in  such  Legible  and  neat  form  as  to  be  easily  read,  by  any  manager  <>:•  other 
party  interested. 

Sec.  5.  The  Treasurer  shall  keep  the  funds  and  assets  of  Hie  Corpora- 
tion; and  shall  deposit  in  the  name  of  the  Corporation  in  such  Hank  as  the 
Finance  Committee  shall  direct. 

Sec.  G.  He  shall  pay  out  monies  only  upon  the  warrant  of  the  [Resident, 
countersigned  by  the  Secretary. 

Sec.  7.  lie  shall  give  bond  in  such  sum  as  shall  he  required  by  the  finance 
Committee. 

Skc.  S  The  Bean  of  the  Institute,  shall  be  President  Ex-ofllcio  of  both 
Facidties;  and  as  such,  shall  attend  to  procuring  Text  Books,  Library,  Cabinets, 
Aparatus,  Machinery,  Implements,  Stock,  and  other  matters  needed,  in  keeping 
pace  with  the  advance  yof  Industrial  Improvement. 

Skc.  9.  He  shall  deliver  a  course  of  lectures  in  each  College,  on  some  phase 
of  the  relations  of  Industry  to  Civilization. 

Sec.  10.  Tie  shall,  therefore,  have  a  knowledge  of  the  application  of  Science 
to  the  arts  and  be  thoroughly  acquainted  with  the  wants  oi  the  State. 

ARTICLE  III. 
EXDOWMEXTS   AX1)    DONATIONS. 

iSEC.  1.  The  Company  shall  keep  sacred  all  Donations  and  Endowments; 
and  shall  comply  with  the  conditions  affixed,  if  nor  incompatible  with  the 
objects  and  regulations  of  the   College  to  which  the  donation  may  pertain. 

Sec  2.  They  shall  invest  in  public  securities  and  real  estate,  all  donations 
in  money  for  permanent  investment,  under  the  dirWtion  of  the  Board. 

Sec.  .*).  They  shall  create  and  organize  such  professorships  as  may  be 
demanded  from  time  to  time,  and  shall  fix  their  salaries  and  conipi  Ligations: 

Sec.  4.  Any  person  or  corporation  who  shall  endow  a  professorship,  cr- 
ated or  accepted  by  the  Board,  and  not  already  endowed,  shall  la1  permit- 
ted to  name  the  Professorship  in  perpetiw  and  to  nominate  to  the  Board  the 
person  who  shall  fill  it,  during  the  natural  life  of  the  donor. 

Sec.  5.  Any  person  who  shall  endow  a  scholarship,  may  be  permitted 
to  nominate  the  cadet  to,*  till  it,  with  privilege  to  retire  aim  "al  the  end  of 
three  years. 

Sec.  (>.  The  Board  shall  provide  for  agents  or  agencies  for  soliciting  do- 
nations, and  collection  of  monies,  and  shall  require  such  bond  as  shall  be 
determined  by  the  Finance  Committee. 

Sec.  7.     Collections  shall  be  reported  and  returned  to  the  Treasurer  monthly. 

Sec.  8.  Subscriptions  shall  be  made  by  signature,  in  books  provided  for 
that  purpose  by  the  Secretary,  and  two  per  cent,  shall  be  collected  at  the 
time  of  subscribing. 

Sec.  9.  No  calls  shall  be  made  for  other  "payments  on  subscriptions,  till 
they  shall  amount  to  oO.OOO  dollars;  and  thereafter  they  shall  be  made  in 
such  sums  and  with  such  intervals  as  the  Board  shall  determine;  provided 
that  the  calls  be  not  more  than  ten  per  cent,  monthly.  Provided  however,  that 
subscriptions  of  ten  dollars  and  less,  shall  be  paid  in  cash,  and  shall  pass  in- 
to the  general  fund. 

ARTICLE  IV. 

COLLEGES., 

Sec.  1.  There  shall  be  two  Colleges,  with  different  locations  and  separate 
Faculties:    with   no  other  connection    than    their  similarity    of    organization 


M 

Mini  their  exact  equality  of  rank,  dignity  and  honor;  and  their  operation 
under  the  same  managers,  and  Dean. 

Sec1.  2.  Their  Professors  shall  be  elected  by  a  majority  of  the  full  Board, 
and  may  be  displaced  only  by  a  two  third  vote  and  upon  charges  of  unfitness, 
immorality,  or  conduct  unbecoming  a  gentleman  and  a  professor. 

Any  Professor  so  arraigned  shall  be  cited  and  heard  in  defence 

ARLICLE  V. 

CADETS. 

Sec.  1.  No  apprentice  shall  be  indentured  under  14  years  of  age,  nor 
without  examination  of  surgeon,  as  to  fitness  in  mind  and  body. 

Sec.  2.  Cadets  shall  be  formally  enterered  as  apprentices,  indentured 
to  serve  in  the  Polytechnic  and  Industrial  Institute  as  prescribed  herein; 
and  they  shall  be  discharged  honorably,  only  upon  graduation,  or  loss  of 
health;  or  upon  a  vote  of  a  majority  of  the  whole  Board  at  a  regular  or  for- 
mally called  meeting;  and  the  discharge  shall  be  based  upon  the  recom- 
mendation of  his  faculty,  after  payment  of  any  sum  due  the  Institute,  by  the 
scale  of  service  value. 

Sec  .  3.     The  scale  of  Service  Value  is  based  upon  estimated  earnings,  as  com- 
pared with  the  cost  of  clothing,   subsistence  and  necessary  expenses. 
Year  1  Deficit,  $100 

"     2  "  50 

«     3  "  00—1150 

"     1  Excess,  50 

"     5  "  100 

"     6  "  .150—1300 


Sec.  1  Any  Excess  above  all  expenses,  shall  upon  honorable  graduation, 
be  paid  in  cash  to  the  Graduate. 

Sec.  5.  Entry  may  be  made  at  any  stage  of  advancement,  upon  thorough 
examination;  scholastic  and  industrial  examination  for  admisssion  shall  be 
made  by  the  Faculty,  at  stated  periods. 

AKTICLE  VI. 

DISCIPLINE. 

Sec.  1.  The  Discipline  of  the  Colleges,  as  administered  by  the  Faculties, 
Professors  and  Superintendents,  shall  be  kind  and  respectful  towards  the  Ca- 
dets, as  young  gentlemen :  but  it  shall  be  military  in  exactness,  when  on  duty. 

Sec.  2.  Infantry  Tactics  shall  be  taught  by  Drill,  and  all  movements  to 
and  from  duty,  meals,  and  chapel,  shall  be  in  ranks,  and  under  command:  and 
reveille  and  tattoo  with  drum  and  roll-call  shall  regulate  the  hours  of  rising 
and  retiring. 

Sec.  3.    Recreations  and  vacations  in  the  Industrial  School  will  be  few  and  short. 

Sports  and  rational  amusements  and  exercises  will  be  encouraged. 

Sec.  4.  Profaneness,  gambling,  drinking,  the  use  of  tobacco,  and  all 
immoralities  and  dissipations,  positively  prohibited,  as  incompatible  with  the 
gentlemanly  character,  to  be  always  inculcated  and  attained  in  the  Polytechnic 
Institute. 

Sec.  5.  Punishments  shall  not  be  corporal  or  degrading:  but  by  increase 
of  duty,  by  deprivation  of  privileges,  and  by  expulsion.  ( 

Sec.  6.  Offences  involving  the  penalty  of  expulsion,  may  be  tried  by  Court 
martial  or  Jury  of  Peers,  by  order  of  the  Faculty,  or  on  petition  of  the  accused. 


IT) 

ARTICLE  VII. 

RELIGION. 

Skc.  1.  Iielif/ious  Services  volunteered  by  the  various  Denominations  using 
the  Bible,  snail  be  invited  by  the  Faculty;  and  the  Cadets  shall  be  required 
respectfully  to  attend  the  ministrations.  But  no  Cadet  shall  be  required  to  at- 
tend services,  to  which  his  parents  or  guardian. may  object.  He  may  elect  in 
such  case,  to  confine  himself  to  his  quarters,  during  service;  or  to  attend 
such  ..places  of  public  worship,  under  the  regulations  of  the  Faculty,  as  his 
parent  or  guardian  may  designate. 

ARTICLE  VIII. 
POPULAR    PRIVILEGES. 

Sec.  1.  Youths  residing  out  of  the  College,  but  pursuing  trades  or  vocations 
taught  therein,  shall  be  permitted,  for  adequate  pay,  to  be  fixed  by  the  Board,  to 
attend  the  lectures,  recitations,  and  teachings  of  the  Polytechnic  Institute. 

Sec.  2.  They  must  comply  in  all  respects  with  the  discipline,  morals, 
and  demeanor  of  cadets,  while  in  the  college  campus. 

ARTICLE  IX. 
MECHANICAL    COLLEGE. 

DEPARTMENT  OF  INDUSTRY. 

Sec.  1.  Heed  Property — The  Board  shall  acquire  by  purchase  or  donation,  a 
tract  of  not  less  than  twenty -five  acres  of  land  in  New  Orleans  or  vicinity :  and 
shall  erect  thereon,  as  needed,  buildings  suited  for  College  purposes,  and 
buildings  adapted  to  mechanical  shops — separate  and  remote  from  each  other. 

Sec.  2.  Any  new  structure  of  a  temporary  character  may  be  built  to 
supplement  buildings  (if  any)  already  on  the  ground  and  adapted  to  present  use. 

Sec.  ?>.  All  buildings  of  a  permanent  character  shall  be  made  to  conform 
to  a  general  plan,  which  shall  be  adopted  after  the  most  mature  deliberation. 
These  shall  be  so  designed  as  to  admit  of  extension,  addition,  and  adornment, 
under  the  general  system  adopted. 

Sec.  4.  The  shops,  .with  the  tools,  implements,  and  machinery,  and  opera- 
tions, shall  be  under  the  direction,  (by  regulations  of  the  Board  or  Faculty,)  of 
a  General  Superintendent,  who  may  be  a  Professor ;  but  each  trade  or  art  shall 
n%ve  a  Foreman,  who  may  be  a  cadet,  and  may  serve  over  more  than  one  sec- 
tion or  trade. 

Sec.  5  As  soon  as  practicable,  Cadets  or  Graduates  of  the  Polytechnic  Insti- 
tute exclusively,  shall  be  assigned  to  the  duties  of  superintendents,  foremen, 
and  assistant  professors. 

ARTICLE  X. 

TRADES   AKD    ARTS. 

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Sec.  1.  Cadets  in  the  Mechanical  College,  in  the  first  three  classes,  shall 
be  styled  Apprentices  ;  and  in  the  second  three  classes  or  years,  they  shall  be 
styled  Craftsmen. 

Sec.  2.  The  Apprentice  shall  be  assigned  to  such  trades  and  arts  as  the 
parent  or  guardian  or  himself  may  select ;  always  with  the  assent  of  the  Faculty. 

Sec.  3.  There  shall  be  no  transfers  to  other  trades  or  arts  until  mastered, 
except  by  decision  of  the  Faculty,  nor  without  assent  of  parent  or  gnardian. 

Sec.  4.  The  following  Trades  and  Arts  shall  be  taught  from  the  begin- 
ning, or  as  soon  as  practicable: 

Smithing,  (Copper,  Tin,  Black,  White  and  Gun  Smithing.) 
Wagon,  Carriage  and  Plow  Making. 


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Cabinet  Making. 

Turning,  Bed,  Chair,  Broom  and  Basket  Making, 

Coopering  and  Bucket  Making. 

Printing. 

Book-Binding. 

Telegraphing. 

Door,  Sash  and  Blind  Making  and  Glazing. 
Sec.  5.  Apprentices  after  one  year's  service,  and  Craftsmen,  may  f*y  di- 
rection of  the  Faculty  and  under  the  direction  of  the  Superintendent  or 
Foreman,  work  out  of  the  Institute  foi  the  period  of  working  hours,  each  day. 
in  Carpentry,  Joinery,  Founding,  Engine  Building,  Finishing,  Masonry,  Plas- 
tering, Gasfitting,  and  other  trades  not  yet  introduced  into  the  Institute  ground. ' 
Sec.  6.  The  hours  devoted  to  labor  shall  be  six,  and  except  as  temporarily 
altered  by  the  Faculty,  these  shall  be  from  7  to  10  A.  M.  and  from  3  to  6  P.  M. 

ARTICLE  XI. 
DEPARTMENT    OF    INSTRUCTION. 

Sec.  L  Studies — The  course  of  studies  shall  be  so  selected  and  arnanged 
by  the  Faculty,  as  to  give  as  thorough  a  mastery  of  the  English  Language  and 
Literature,  as  may  be  practicable,  without  a  study  of  the  Ancient  Languages  ; 
and  such  an  exhaustive,  practical  and  theoretical  knowledge  of  Mechanical 
and  Artisan  Science,  as  shall  illustrate  and  dignify  the  Trades  into  Professions. 

Sec.  2.  The  Curriculum  shall  be  so  amended  from  time  to  time,  as  to  keep 
pace  with  the  improvements  in  special  Arts,  and  of  general  Artisan  progress. 

Sec.  3.  The  hours  devoted  to  study  shall  not  be  less  than  six  ;  ami  except 
as  modified  by  the  Faculty,  these  shall  be  from  10:30  A.  M.  to  1  I\  M.:  '.\nd 
from  7  to  9:30  P.  M. 

Sec.  4.  The  Faculty  shall  modify  the  hours,  as  to  distribution,  adapting 
them  to  the  seasons  of  the  year,  and  to  special  necessity;  but  the  six  hours 
labor  and  six  hours  study  shall  not  be  disturbed. 

ARTICLE  XII. 

FACULTY    OB    ACADEMIC    STAFF. 

Sec.  1.  The  Professorships  shall-be  filled  as  funds  for  their  support  shall 
justify  and  cadets  for  their  instruction  shall  demand,  and  as  endowmei#s 
shall  warrant. 

Sec.  2.  •  Infilling  vacancies  in  Professorships,  not  otherwise  provided  Cor 
nominations  by  the  faculty,  or  members  of  the  same*  shall  be  invited,  and  res- 
pectfully con  sidered. 

Sec.  3.  The  following  shall  be  the  Professorships  established  and  ibr  wlih  h 
endowments  shall  be  sought : 

Prof.  1.    English  Language  and  Literature.  • 

Prof.  2.     Mathematics. 

Prof.  3.     Mechanical  and  Artisan  Philosophy. 

Prof.  4.     Drawing,  Designing,  Engraving  &  Artisan  Sketching. 

Prof.  5.     General  and  Applied  Chemistry,  Metalurgy. 

Prof.  G.     Geography,   Geology,  Mining* 

Prof.  7.     Natural  Philosphy  and  Astronomy. 

Prof.  8.    Natural   History,  Meteorology,   and  Climatology. 

Prof.  9.     Magnetism,  Electricity,  Telegraphy  and   Photography. 

Prof.  10.  Steam  and  Mechanical  Engineering. 

Prof.  11.  Moral  and  Intel.  Philos.  and  Political  and  Commercial  Economy. 

Prof.  12.  Military  Tactics. 
Other  Professorships  maybe  instituted  as  occasion  shall  require. 


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Sec.  1.  Craftsmen  may  be  detailed  by  the  Faculty  to  act  as  Tutors,  pro- 
vided it  shall  not  interfere  with  their  progress. 

Sec.  5,  Cadets  having' finished  their  course  shall,  upon  examination  and  re- 
commendation by  the  Faculty,  have  conferred  upon  them  by  tne  Board  of 
Managers  the  Degree  of  "MASTER  OF  MECHANICS,"  and  shall  receive  a 
Diploma  certifying  their  graduation,  signed  by  the  President  of  the  Board 
and  bv  the  Faculty. 

ARTICLE    XIII. 

A  G  RIO  ULTUR AL   COLLEGE . 

DEPARTMENT  OF  INDUSTRY. 

Sec.  J.  Property — The  Board  of  Managers  shall  acquire  a  body  of  not  less 
than  2,000  acres  of  laud,  adapted  to  the  varied  agriculture  of  Louisiana;  and 
shall  proceed,  at  such  rate  as  their  means  and  the  demands  shall  justify, 
to  develop  it,  -according  to  the  apportionments  of  its  parts;  and  this  plan 
of  development  and  administration,  shall  be  adopted  after  the  maturest 
deliberation.  / 

Sec.  2.     Apportionment  of  Lands. 
Division  of  Agriculture — 
An  Area  for  Cotton. 
An  Area  for  Cane. 
A  n  Area  for  Rice. 
An  Area  for  Cereals. 
An  Area  for  Hays  and  Fodders. 
Division  of  Horticulture— 

An  Area  for  Garden  Vegetables. 
u        "        Orchards  and  Fruits. 
"    •     "        Vines. 
"        "        Ornamen'l  Shrubbery. 
u        "        Fibrous  Plants. 
"        «        Forest  Culture  and  Parks. 
Division  of  8toclc  Culture —  • 

An  Area  for  Pastures  and  Meadows. 
"        "       Bloodstock  Breeding. 
u        "       Milk  Cows  and  Goats  and  Dairies. 
"        u       Sheep  Growing  and  WooL 
"        "       Draft  Horses,  Males  and  Oxen. 
"        "        Hogs,  Sheep  and  Beeves. 
Division  of  Farm  Buildings — 

Area  for  Barnyards  and  Granaries. 

Area  for  Gin,  Press,  Pickeries,  Mills,  Ware  and  Store  Rooms. 
Area  for  Stables,  Stock  Yards.  • 

Area  for  Shops  for  Tools  and  Implements. 
Division  of  Employees  Quarters — 

Area  for  Dwellings  of  Superindents  and  Secretary. 
Area  for  Overseers,  Stockmen,  Laborers  and  other  Employees. 
Sec.  3.    The  Board  may  add  from  time  to  time  such  other  areas  to  those 
enumerated  in  the  foregoing  section  as  they  may  think  proper. 

ARTICLE  XIV. 
DEPARTMENT   OF   INSTRUCTION. 

COLLEGE  GROUNDS  OR  CAMPUS. 

Sec.  1.  An  area  of  forty  acres  of  land  shall  be  improved  by  walks, 
roads,  swards,  shrubbery,  and  shade  and  ornamental  trees.  It  shall  be  in- 
closed and  entirely  protected. 


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ARTICLE  XV. 
BUILDINGS. 

Sec.  1.     Upon  the  Campus,  and  properly  distributed,  shall   be   erected   all 
the  buildings  relating  to  instruction. 
Central  Hall. 

Eight  Wing  and  Left  Wing. 
Chapel,  Library  and  Hospital. 
Laboratory  and  Cabinets. 
Appurtenant  Mess  Hall,  Stewards  Quarters. 
Servants  and  other  Out-Buildings.  " 
Sec.  2.    Professors  Dwellings,  with  ample  areas  for  shade,  shrubbery,  and 
ornament,  shall  be  arranged  in  circular  or  crescent  form  in  rear  and  on  flanks 
fronting  the  college  buildings. 

Sec.  3.  All  these  shall  be  developed  according  to  need ;  the  plan  being  adopt- 
ed in  advance,  that  all  progress  may  be  directed  according  to  design. 

ARTICLE  XVI. 

ACADEMIC  STAFF  OK  FACT  LTV. 

Sec.  1.  The  Professorships  shall  be  filled  as  early  as  funds  for  their  support  shall 
justify,  and  cadets  for  their  instruction  shall  demand,  and  as  endowments  shall 
warrant. 

Sec.  2.  In  filling  vacancies,  not  otherwise  provided  for,  nominations  by  the  Fac- 
ulty or  members  or  any  member  thereof  shall  be  invited  and  respectfully  considered. 

Sec.  3.  The  following  shall  be  the  Professorships  established  and  for  which 
endowments  shall  be  sought. 

Prof.  1.     English  Language  and  Literature. 

Prof.  2.     Mathematics   and  Infantry  Tactics. 

Prof.  3.     Chemistry   and  General   Agriculture. 

Prof.  4.     Botony,    Horticulture    and  Agriculture. 

Prof.  5.    Vegetable  Pathology  and  Physiology. 

Prof.  6.    Natural  and  Mechanical  Philosophy. 

Prof.  7.    Drawing,  Designing  and  Landscape. 

Prof.  8.     Geography,  Geology  and  Meteorology. 

Prof.  9.     Zoology,  Natural  History  and  Blood  Stock. 

Prof.  10.  Veterinary  Science  and  Art. 

Prof.  11.  Steam  Navigation  and  Commerce. 

Prof.  12.  Moral  and  Intellectual  Philosophy  and  Political  Economy. 
Other  Professorships  may  be  added  as  occasion  may  require. 

Sec.  4.  Cadets  in  the  fourth  or  any  subsequent  year's  service  and  study 
may  be  detailed  as  Tutors  by  th$  Faculty,  provided  it  shall  not  interfere  with 
their  studies  and  progress. 

Sec.  5.  Cadets  during  the  first  three  years7  service  shall  be  styled  "Apprentice 
Farmers;"  and  after  entering  on  the  fourth  year  they  shall  be  styled,  "  Planters." 

Sec.  6.  Cadets  shall  devote  six  hours  to  labor,  and  six  hours  to  study;  and 
except  as  temporarily  altered  by  the  Faculty  and  Superintendent,  the  hours 
of  labor  shall  be  from  6  to  9  A.  M.,  and  3  to  6  P.  M.;  and  the  hours  devoted 
to  study  shall  be  from  10  A.  M.  to  1  P.  M.,  and  from   7  to  10   P.  M. 

ARTICLE  XVII. 

GRADUATION. 

"Planters"  having  finished  their  course,  and  passed  a  final  examination 
by  the  Faculty,  shall  receive  the  Degree  of  "MASTER  OF  AGRICUL- 
TURE"; and  they  shall  receive  Diplomas  certifying  their  graduation,  signed 
by  the  President  of  the  Board  and  by  the  members  of  the  Faculty. 


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